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Logomachy

noun
1.
Argument about words or the meaning of words.





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"Logomachy" Quotes from Famous Books



... silence is golden; while speech reaches not even the dignity of sounding brass or tinkling cymbal, and is but the weary clatter of an endless logomachy. One can but suspect that Hume also had reached this conviction; and that his shadowy and inconsistent theism was the expression of his desire to rest in a state of mind, which distinctly excluded negation, while it included as little as possible of affirmation, ...
— Hume - (English Men of Letters Series) • T.H. Huxley


Words linked to "Logomachy" :   logomachist, argument, argumentation, debate


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